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29 gramsevaks suspended for mining funds diversion
Edit The Times of India 11 Jun 2016
Arun Dongare, ZP CEO has taken the strict action because the ZP had received Rs 76.26 crore from permissions given for minor mineral excavation. It is mandatory for excavating firms to pay the royalty to the government and it has to be used for carrying out some developmental works for the same area ......
Revenue dept seizes 70 trucks, 30 boats from illegal sand mining site near Karad
Edit The Times of India 11 Jun 2016
Kolhapur ... The administration also destroyed 52 sand pits that had been excavated in the Krishna river ... Upon seeing the officials, the workers engaged in the excavation ran away from the spot leaving behind the machinery ... "There were trucks, dumpers and excavating machines scattered in the area and boats in the river ... The department also destroyed 52 sand pits in the area where 30 boats were excavating sand ... RELATED. From around the web....
Archaeologist points to hidden monument in Jordan's Petra
Edit Springfield News-Sun 11 Jun 2016
Tuttle, executive director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. Only excavations would be able to shed more light on its original use, but no digs are planned for now, he said ... The east side of the smaller platform was originally lined by a row of columns that was partially revealed by illegal excavations, the researchers wrote ... 1 problem," he said ... So what we would do if we did go back there is targeted excavations." ....
Archaeologist finds hidden monument in ancient Jordan city
Edit New York Post 11 Jun 2016
Tuttle, executive director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. Only excavations would be able to shed more light on its original use, but no digs are planned for now, he said ... AP ... The east side of the smaller platform was originally lined by a row of columns that was partially revealed by illegal excavations, the researchers wrote ... Dr ... AP ... So what we would do if we did go back there is targeted excavations.” ....
Ancient Wisconsin comes to life at Aztalan digs
Edit Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 11 Jun 2016
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Sissel Schroeder is working to dispel the fantastic myths of the small town of Aztalan, excavating at sites in Aztalan State Park in Jefferson County ... ....
Archaeologist points to hidden monument in Jordan’s Petra
Edit Arabnews 11 Jun 2016
Author. . KARIN LAUB . AP. Sat, 2016-06-11. ID. . 1465646675314663700. AMMAN, Jordan. Satellite and drone images have led to a new discovery in the ancient city of Petra — a massive man-made stone platform hidden under sand ... Tuttle, executive director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. Only excavations would be able to shed more light on its original use, but no digs are planned for now, he said ... Middle-East ... ....
Revealed: vast medieval cities hidden beneath the Cambodian jungle
Edit The Guardian 11 Jun 2016
Dr Martin Polkinghorne, a research fellow in the department of archaeology at Adelaide’s Flinders University who is conducting a joint research project on Longvek and Oudong, the post-Angkorian capitals, said his team would use the data during excavations scheduled until 2019 to understand the cities ... “By using lidar to guide excavations on the ......
Ahead of Rio, runners re-enact ancient games
Edit The Miami Herald 11 Jun 2016
Fifty-five days before the Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, athletes from around the world are taking part in very different kind of sporting tournament in southern Greece. Think of it as the no-frills Olympics. No national teams ... Miller, professor emeritus of classical archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, led the excavation when the ancient site still lay buried beneath a highway and vineyards used by raisin farmers....
Athletes from around the world re-enact ancient games in Nemea
Edit Kathimerini 11 Jun 2016
Fifty-five days before the Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, athletes from around the world are taking part in very different kind of sporting tournament in southern Greece. Think of it as the no-frills Olympics. No national teams ... Miller, professor emeritus of classical archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, led the excavation when the ancient site still lay buried beneath a highway and vineyards used by raisin farmers....
LRT tunnel below sinkhole is flooded, engineers discover
Edit Canada Dot Com 11 Jun 2016
As crews at street level continued working around the clock to fill in the hole and repair damaged utilities, engineers ventured into the tunnel two dozen metres underground where excavation had been underway at the time of Wednesday's road collapse, which swallowed a minivan and one piece of construction equipment, and caused huge headaches for transit users and businesses in the area ... Here is a look at the #sinkhole progress....
Pack of brown bears in J&K; brings cheers
Edit Deccan Herald 11 Jun 2016
Spotting of a pack of critically endangered Himalayan brown bears in Jammu and Kashmir’s Drass sector has delighted wildlife experts who say it indicates rising population of the rare species ... At all these places it has never been spotted in such large numbers together ... They excavate their own hibernating lair or den under a large boulder or between the roots of a stunted tree, or they may utilise a natural cavern, Naqash said ... ....
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